"Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(A guide for coaching teachers that includes conversational/verbal tools)
"Pathways to Understanding: Patterns and Practices in the Learning-Focused Classroom" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(Various interaction strategies to use with adults and students)
"Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry" by Bruce Wellman & Laura Lipton(A guide for how to facilitate conversations regarding data analysis along with ideas on how to structure those meetings and reproducible resources)
"Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service" by Ken Blanchard(How to build relationships and create raving fans in your organization)
"What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things that Matter Most" by Todd Witaker(15 Things that Great Principal's Do)
"The Reading Coach: A How-To Manual for Success" by Jan Hasbrouck(Tools, Tips, and Strategies for Reading Coaches)
"Using Data to Assess Your Reading Program" by Emily Calhoun(Ideas, Tables, and Charts for using student assessment results to evaluate your reading programs)
"Facilitation at a Glance" (2nd edition) by Ingrid Bens(Little pocket guide with facilitation tips & strategies)
"Cooperative Learning" by Dr. Spencer Kagan(cooperative learning strategies)
"Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts" by Kagan(Questions to ask and cooperative learning strategies to use during Language Arts)
"50 Creative Training Openers & Energizers" by Bob Pike & Lynn Solem(Ice breakers and interaction strategies)
"Would You Rather..." by Justin Heimberg & David Gomberg(Questions for adults)
"Which Would you Rather Be?" by William Steig(picture book for children)
"Would You Rather" by John Burningham(picture book for children)
"Teaching Reading Sourcebook" by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, Linda Gutlohn
Core Literacy Library
Tim Rasinski and Michael Opitz's book Good-bye Round Robin Reading
To buy or sell used books: Follett Ed Service, phone 800-621-4272 ext. 7505
This is if you who are taking classes and you need a site to do your APA references for you. http://www.easybib.com
This is a chart to aide in fast tracking RM and RM Plus Editions ConversionTable-1.xls
Created to help those schools that use RM Signatures Edition. Checkout the tabs at the bottom. Some things are specific to my school. Signatures Info.xls
Professional Readings for Coaches:
Books:
- "Mentoring Matters: A Practical Guide to Learning-Focused Relationships" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(A guide for coaching teachers that includes conversational/verbal tools)
- "Pathways to Understanding: Patterns and Practices in the Learning-Focused Classroom" by Laura Lipton & Bruce Wellman(Various interaction strategies to use with adults and students)
- "Data-Driven Dialogue: A Facilitator's Guide to Collaborative Inquiry" by Bruce Wellman & Laura Lipton(A guide for how to facilitate conversations regarding data analysis along with ideas on how to structure those meetings and reproducible resources)
- "Raving Fans: A Revolutionary Approach to Customer Service" by Ken Blanchard(How to build relationships and create raving fans in your organization)
- "What Great Principals Do Differently: Fifteen Things that Matter Most" by Todd Witaker(15 Things that Great Principal's Do)
- "The Reading Coach: A How-To Manual for Success" by Jan Hasbrouck(Tools, Tips, and Strategies for Reading Coaches)
- "Using Data to Assess Your Reading Program" by Emily Calhoun(Ideas, Tables, and Charts for using student assessment results to evaluate your reading programs)
- "Facilitation at a Glance" (2nd edition) by Ingrid Bens(Little pocket guide with facilitation tips & strategies)
- "Cooperative Learning" by Dr. Spencer Kagan(cooperative learning strategies)
- "Higher-Level Thinking Questions: Language Arts" by Kagan(Questions to ask and cooperative learning strategies to use during Language Arts)
- "50 Creative Training Openers & Energizers" by Bob Pike & Lynn Solem(Ice breakers and interaction strategies)
- "Would You Rather..." by Justin Heimberg & David Gomberg(Questions for adults)
- "Which Would you Rather Be?" by William Steig(picture book for children)
- "Would You Rather" by John Burningham(picture book for children)
- "Teaching Reading Sourcebook" by Bill Honig, Linda Diamond, Linda Gutlohn
Core Literacy LibraryAdditional Materials:
Reading Mastery Videos
"Why is Reading So Hard?" <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293317""Reading Mastery Video Training Series - RM II, Lessons 40-160" (example of student teacher game points in first 1.5 min. of video) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5205232"
"Countdown to Lesson 1" (samples of routines used in first 8.5 min. of video) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293789"
"Countdown to Lesson 1" (Error Correction Information starting 8:20 min. into the video until the end) <iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/5293789"
Cybraryman's Website Information:
http://cybraryman.com/coachinginstr.htmlVocabulary Website:
Vocabulogic
Report Cards